Wines From India

The shares of the company spurted to 0.57 per cent from the previous close on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

Mohit Khattar, the gourmet food retail chain's managing director was quoted saying by the media that Nature's Basket started as a fresh fruit and vegetable chain in 2005, but now also sells food products including breads, pastas, meats and wines from India and abroad.

Khattar further said that Nature's Basket was doing exceptionally well in Mumbai in 2009-10 and that has given them the confidence to expand thier operations further.

Full Story: India: Godrej to increase retail presence - FreshPlaza

The shares of the company spurted to 0.57 per cent from the previous close on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

Mohit Khattar, the gourmet food retail chain's managing director was quoted saying by the media that Nature's Basket started as a fresh fruit and vegetable chain in 2005, but now also sells food products including breads, pastas, meats and wines from India and abroad.

Khattar further said that Nature's Basket was doing exceptionally well in Mumbai in 2009-10 and that has given them the confidence to expand thier operations further.

Full Story: Godrej to increase retail presence of fruits & veg - Commodity Online

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After a successful participation at the Hong Kong wine show last November, the Pune based Indian Grape Processing Board formed last year by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, is taking a group of eight producers to the 30th edition of the London International Wine Fair being held on May 18-20.

This is the first participation on a collective platform in Europe by wineries from India which is the latest of the many wine producing countries emerging onto the UK market, who are exhibiting at the LIWF this year.

Full Story: IGPB takes Indian Wineries to LIWF London - Indian Wine Academy

Paulo Kin Yee Pong's business caters to private and corporate customers. As managing director of Altaya Wines, he explains that "China's wine culture is developing fast and furious." Hong Kong's proximity and history with wine consumption undoubtedly influence the mainland market by providing a greater variety of wines to customers.

Many new wine drinkers choose New World wines that are more "fruit-driven" in style and that can be consumed with or without food, Many proprietors indicate that wines of New Zealand, California and Tuscany are rapidly chasing the top ranks on their wine lists. These entrepreneurs have already been building Hong Kong's wine-trading industry that is now moving into the mainland market, although the international wine culture on the mainland is still a work in progress.

He and his fellow local and expat wine entrepreneurs are optimistic about future growth in the industry flowing from cross-border trade abroad into Hong Kong and finally into the mainland.

Full Story: Hong Kong's flowing wine trade - Wines-Info.Com

*I don't see how this can be anything but good, aside from who-knows-how-high prices: Dominique Lafon bringing a touch of Burgundy to North America.

*Michael Wigley and Brian Jackson reports that their Bacchus Wine Fund sold all but one of its 358 lots at last weekend's Zachy's auction at Hong Kong. But it wasn't as easy as that sounds. Attendance was sparse at the Friday session due to the last of the Chinese New Year's festivities and a Commanderie de Bordeaux Parlement event elsewhere in town, Jackson reports. "Friday night, the room was only 40% to 50% full.  Saturday, it was packed to the rafters." That helped the local guys come within 1 percent of their expected results..

new frontiers in wine are emerging, and I eagerly anticipate checking them out once they inch their way to this semi-remote outpost.

Full Story: Worldly doings - Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)